214 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW EXGLAND. 



CISSIA EURYTUS— The little wood satyr. 



[The dii.sky argus (G-osse) ; Eurytrisi butterfly (Harris); little wood satyr (Sciidder) ; six- 

 spotted qiuiker butterfly (Maynard).] 



Papilio eurytus Fabr., Syst. entora., 487 (188-i); — Mayn., Butt. N. E., (i-T, pi. 2, figs. 



(1775);— Abb., Draw. ins. Ga. Brit, mus., vi: 7,7a (1886). 



25, figs. 52-53. Satyrus eurythris God., Encycl. m6th., ix: 



Euptychia eurytus Butl., Proc. Zool. soc. 465, 494 (1819); — Boisd.-LeC, L6p. Am6r. 



Lond., 1866, 465 (1866). sept., pi. 61, figs. 1-4 (1833). 



Megisto euryUis Scudd., Syst. rev. Amer. Neonympha eurythris Morr., Catal. Lep. 



butt., 7 (1872). N. Amer., 10 (1860); Syn. Lep. N. Amer. 73 



Cissia eurytus Seudd., Bull. Butt', soc. nat. (1862) ; — Saund.,Can.eutom., ii: 139-142, fig. 9 



so., ii : 245 (1875) ; Butt., 297, fig. 2.54 (1881) . (1870). 



Papilio eurytris Fabr., Eiitom. syst., iii : Papilio cymela Cram., Pap. exot., ii: 55, 



157 (1793);— Herbst, Natur.syst. ins. schmett., 148, pi. 132, figs. C. D. (1779). 



viii: 96-97, pi. 196, figs. 7-8 (1796). Neomjmpha cymela J^iUwiXv., Q-At&\.Go\\. en- 



Hipparchia eurytris Harr., Ins. inj. veg., torn, acad., i: 40 (1855). 



3d ed., 306, tig. 129 (1862). Megisto cymelia Htibn., Verz. schmett., 54 



Neonympha eurytris Doubl., Catal. Lep. (1816). 

 Brit, mus., i: 137 (1844) ; — Edw., Can. ent., 



X : 105-108 (1878) ; — French, Rep. ins. 111., vii : Figured by Petiver, Gazophylacium, pi. 3, fig. 



156 (1878) ; Butt. east. U. S., 238-240 (1885) ; — 3 (1695?) ; — Abb., Draw. Gray coll., Bost. soc. 



Middl., Rep. ins. 111., x: 90 (1881) ; — Coq., nat. hist., 54;— Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 36, 



ibid., 184 (1881) : — Fern., Butt. Me., 68-70 figs. 2-3; pi. A., fig. 25,ined. 



The butterflies — bright airy things — 



From oft' the lilac buds 

 I scared, for having on their wings 



The shadows of the woods. 



Alice Gary.— Tricksey''s Bing. 



Imago (1 : 8 ; 11 : 6). Head furnished with long, blackish brown hairs, bordering 

 the inner edge of the eyes, and partially embracing the base of the antennae; be- 

 tween them is a median row of equally long, pale or dull yellowish hairs, which, behind 

 the antennae, expand into a transverse row and are followed posteriorly by mingled 

 yellowish, broAvnish and greenish olivaceous hairs, all of them rather pale; the eye is 

 edged posteriorly almost as far as the base of the antennae with pearly, backed espec- 

 ally above with blackish, mingled with ruddy scales. Palpi pearly, dotted with black 

 externally at the very base, with a distinct black streak along the under portion of the 

 inner side, the superior fringe pearly externally, black internally; the inferior fringe 

 pearly internally, blackish externally ; but next their base superimposed by shorter, 

 pearly scale-hairs, which grow longer toward the base of the palpi; apical joint black- 

 ish brown, with a longitudinal stripe externally below aud above, the latter tapering; 

 fringe beneath of mingled black and white hairs. Antennae above blackish brown, 

 interrupted rather broadly at the base of each joint with white, less distinct and 

 marked above than on the sides, externally forming a continuous white stripe; beneath 

 reddish orange, broadening apically so as to occupy the whole of the under surface, the 

 sides and the sides of the upper surface of the club, besides the whole of the apical 

 three joints. Tongue fusco-luteous, the middle of each maxilla fuscous; papillae 

 (61 : 27) long, apple-seed shaped, compressed, so as to appear equal in some views, 

 with faint indications of four or five raised points around tlie apical rim, the central 

 filament slender, aud as long as the width of the papilla. 



Thorax covered above in front with abundant, delicate yellowish and greenish oliva- 

 ceous hairs, posteriorly with less profuse brownish olivaceous hairs; beneath with 

 shorter, brownish yelloAv and sometimes pale, slightly olivaceous hairs. Fore legs cov- 

 ered with hoary hairs ; others pale buft", the femora fringed pretty heavily with hoary 

 hairs, and interiorly lined more or less with bluish scales. Spurs and spines fusco- 

 luteous, the former scaled nearly to the tip. Claws reddish, a little dusky at the tips. 



